page_title: New Mosque, Istanbul
section_title: Interior
hierarchical_section_title: New Mosque, Istanbul / Architecture / Interior
caption_attribution_description: English: interior view of yeni mosque dome
context_page_description: The New Mosque after its partial reconstruction and completion between 1660 and 1665, is an Ottoman imperial mosque located in the Eminönü quarter of Istanbul, Turkey. It is situated on the Golden Horn, at the southern end of the Galata Bridge.
context_section_description: The interior of the mosque is square shaped and measures 41 metres (135 feet) on each side. The central area is defined by four large piers which are the main support for the dome. On the sides and rear of the central area are colonnades of slender marble columns connected by arches in a variety of styles. The dome is 17.5 metres (57 feet) in diameter and has a height of 36 metres (118 feet). Like many other Ottoman imperial mosques, on the 4 corners where the dome meets the pillars holding it up, are calligraphic plates with the names of the first four khalifahs, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali. The interior space is extended with semi-domes along the east–west axis of the building, with smaller domes above each corner of the nave and even smaller domes above the corners of the galleries.
  The northeast corner of the gallery has a gilded screen, behind which members of the imperial court could attend services. This Royal Loge is connected by a long elevated passageway to a Royal Pavilion in the northeast corner of the mosque complex.
  The interior of the mosque is decorated with blue, green and white İznik tiles, which are considered somewhat inferior in quality to tiles in earlier imperial mosques. The mihrab is decorated with gilded stalactites and the minbar had a conical canopy with slender marble columns.
  A library was built by Ahmed III in 1724-25 to the right of the porch in front of the tomb.  The structure, which has stone-brick alternate meshed walls, is square-shaped and covered with a flattened dome with an octagonal rim, which is provided with pendants.  There are unique pen works left in the pendants and dome of the library.
  It is located at the corner of the courtyard wall to the south of the mosque;  It was built in 1816 according to the inscription on it.  The structure, which is handled with cut stone material, is covered with a wide eave flat onion dome and has three sections.  The entrance hall, which is passed by the low arched door, is connected to the main room.  The transition from the main space to the small space in the east direction was provided.  II in the oval form at the top in the middle of the facade.  Mahmud's monogram, at the bottom, is the inscription of the Poet Vasif, in two rows, with a ten-line stone line.
caption: Interior of Yeni Cami (New Mosque)
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